Lead Data Engineer (Snowflake)
Posted 2 days ago by dcoded. | B Corp ™ pending
£87 Per hour
Outside
Remote
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Lead Data Engineer role focuses on leveraging Snowflake expertise to bridge technical delivery teams and senior business stakeholders. The position requires a combination of hands-on experience with Snowflake and the ability to translate technical capabilities into commercial value. The successful candidate will ensure the Snowflake implementation maximizes ROI and aligns with strategic objectives. Occasional travel to London is expected in this remote-first role.
Key Responsibilities:
- Act as the key link between technical delivery teams and senior business stakeholders.
- Ensure Snowflake implementation delivers maximum ROI and aligns with strategic objectives.
- Translate technical capabilities into commercial value.
- Support or lead Snowflake implementations or similar cloud data platform projects.
- Engage with stakeholders and communicate effectively with technical teams, project leads, and executives.
- Challenge, influence, and guide both business and technical direction.
- Operate in evolving environments and create clarity around requirements.
Key Skills:
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake (querying, modelling, warehousing, optimisation, governance).
- Proven ability to operate in a bridge role between technical and business teams.
- Strong understanding of data engineering/architecture concepts.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Ability to challenge and influence business and technical direction.
- Comfortable in environments with evolving requirements.
Salary (Rate): £87.00/hr
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Lead Data Engineer | Snowflake
Outside IR35
Remote First / occasional travel to London
Competitive Rate
We're looking for a highly capable Snowflake specialist to act as the key link between our technical delivery teams and senior business stakeholders. This role is ideal for someone who can combine strong hands-on experience with Snowflake and data platforms with the ability to translate technical capability into commercial value. You'll be the person ensuring our Snowflake implementation delivers maximum ROI, is aligned with strategic objectives, and actually lands successfully across the organisation.
Skills & Experience
- Hands-on experience with Snowflake (querying, modelling, warehousing, optimisation, governance, etc.).
- Proven ability to operate in a bridge role - translating technical detail into business value.
- Experience supporting or leading Snowflake implementations or similar cloud data platform projects.
- Strong understanding of data engineering/architecture concepts (not necessarily expert level, but enough to guide conversations).
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills - confident speaking with technical teams, project leads, and execs.
- Ability to challenge, influence, and guide both business and technical direction.
- Comfortable operating in environments where requirements evolve and clarity needs to be created.